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The News-HeraldThu, 17 Aug 2017 22:47:03 -040060BARCELONA, Spain >> A van veered onto a promenade Thursday and barreled down the busy walkway in central Barcelona, swerving back and forth as it mowed pedestrians down and turned a picturesque tourist destination into a bloody killing zone. Thirteen people were killed and 100 were injured, 15 of them seriously, in what authorities called a terror attack.]]>Thu, 17 Aug 2017 20:26:53 -0400201708172026532017-08-17T20:26:53-04:002017-08-17T20:26:53-04:00BARCELONA, Spain >> A van veered onto a sidewalk and barreled down a busy pedestrian zone Thursday in Barcelona's picturesque Las Ramblas district, swerving from side to side as it mowed down tourists and residents and turned the popular European vacation promenade into a bloody killing zone. Thirteen people were killed and 100 were injured, 15 of them seriously, in what authorities called a terror attack.]]>Thu, 17 Aug 2017 19:48:31 -0400201708171948312017-08-17T19:48:31-04:002017-08-17T19:48:31-04:00WASHINGTON >> The captain of a Navy warship that lost seven sailors in a collision with a commercial container ship in June will be relieved of command and nearly a dozen others face punishment, the Navy's second-ranking admiral said Thursday.

Adm. William Moran, the vice chief of naval operations, told reporters that the top three leaders aboard the USS Fitzgerald, which was badly damaged in the collision off the coast of Japan, will be removed from duty aboard the ship.

]]>Thu, 17 Aug 2017 19:33:21 -0400201708171933212017-08-17T19:33:21-04:002017-08-17T19:33:21-04:00BRIDGEWATER, N.J. >> With prominent Republicans openly questioning his competence and moral leadership, President Donald Trump on Thursday burrowed deeper into the racially charged debate over Confederate memorials and lashed out at members of his own party in the latest controversy to engulf his presidency.]]>Thu, 17 Aug 2017 19:33:10 -0400201708171933102017-08-17T19:33:10-04:002017-08-17T19:33:10-04:00WASHINGTON >> White House adviser Steve Bannon isn't alone in pondering America's possibly generation-defining question about China's emerging superpower status - but his call for an "economic war" puts him far outside the mainstream.

In an interview reflecting on some of his big-thinking projects, Bannon said the country should be "maniacally focused" on a confrontation with Beijing over who will be the global "hegemon" of the next 25 to 30 years.

]]>Thu, 17 Aug 2017 19:32:25 -0400201708171932252017-08-17T19:32:25-04:002017-08-17T19:32:25-04:00NEW YORK >> Ivanka Trump's rabbi denounced President Donald Trump for blaming "both sides" in a white nationalist rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, as the number of American Jewish leaders willing to criticize him grew.

Rabbi Haskel Lookstein of Congregation Kehilath Jeshurun, and other rabbis from the prominent modern Orthodox synagogue in Manhattan, said in a Facebook message late Wednesday that they were "deeply troubled by the moral equivalency and equivocation" of Trump's reaction.

For the people of Mosul, the sophisticated bomb was a reminder of how difficult it will be to return to homes littered with hidden explosives by Islamic State militants and dotted with the remnants of undetonated bombs dropped by the U.

]]>Thu, 17 Aug 2017 19:32:04 -0400201708171932042017-08-17T19:32:04-04:002017-08-17T19:32:04-04:00WASHINGTON >> America's diplomatic and defense chiefs sought Thursday to reinforce the threat of possible U.S. military action against North Korea after President Donald Trump's top strategist essentially called the commander-in-chief's warnings a bluff.

Secretary of State Rex Tillerson stressed after security talks with close ally Japan that the U.

]]>Thu, 17 Aug 2017 11:57:43 -0400201708171929182017-08-17T11:57:43-04:002017-08-17T19:29:18-04:00ALBANY, N.Y. >> A New York military aviation researcher got more than she bargained for on a dream trip to a battle-scarred South Pacific island - the chance to help solve the mystery of an American soldier listed as missing in action from World War II.

Donna Esposito, who works at the Empire State Aerosciences Museum in upstate Glenville, visited Guadalcanal in the Solomon Islands this spring and was approached by a local man who knew of WWII dog tags and bones found along a nearby jungle trail.

]]>Thu, 17 Aug 2017 19:27:50 -0400201708171927502017-08-17T19:27:50-04:002017-08-17T19:27:50-04:00PESHAWAR, Pakistan >> Radesh Singh's grandfather was just 11 years old when he left his village in India's Punjab province to move to Peshawar, in the far northwest of the country on the border with Afghanistan.

The year was 1901: The British ruled the Indian subcontinent, Pakistan wasn't even a glimmer in the eye of its founder, Mohammad Ali Jinnah, and Peshawar held the promise of work and adventure.

]]>Thu, 17 Aug 2017 17:26:59 -0400201708171726592017-08-17T17:26:59-04:002017-08-17T17:26:59-04:00CANBERRA, Australia >> An Australian senator provoked an angry backlash from lawmakers by wearing a burqa in Parliament on Thursday as part of her campaign for a national ban on Islamic face covers.

Pauline Hanson, leader of the anti-Muslim, anti-immigration One Nation minor party, sat wearing the black head-to-ankle garment for more than 10 minutes before taking it off as she rose to explain that she wanted such outfits banned on national security grounds.

]]>Thu, 17 Aug 2017 13:51:00 -0400201708171157462017-08-17T13:51:00-04:002017-08-17T11:57:46-04:00JOHANNESBURG >> Zimbabwe's President Robert Mugabe was in South Africa on Thursday as his wife faced accusations of assaulting a young model and police said a "red alert" had been issued to prevent her from leaving the country.

Mugabe, 94, flew into Waterkloof Air Force Base in Pretoria with his entourage late Wednesday night, apparently to help his wife with the scandal.

]]>Thu, 17 Aug 2017 13:21:00 -0400201708171157442017-08-17T13:21:00-04:002017-08-17T11:57:44-04:00MANILA, Philippines >> Philippine police killed at least 26 more drug and crime suspects in overnight gunbattles in the capital, bringing to 58 the death toll in a renewed bloody crackdown in the last three days that received praises from the president.

President Rodrigo Duterte expressed his satisfaction with the new spike in drug killings and reassured law enforcers Thursday they will not rot in jail if they get entangled in lawsuits.

]]>Thu, 17 Aug 2017 12:21:00 -0400201708171157422017-08-17T12:21:00-04:002017-08-17T11:57:42-04:00WASHINGTON >> President Donald Trump bitingly decried the rising movement to pull down monuments to Confederate icons Thursday, declaring the nation is seeing "the history and culture of our great country being ripped apart."

Trump's new remarks came even as the White house tried to manage his increasing isolation and the continued fallout from his combative comments on last weekend's racially charged violence in Charlottesville, Virginia.

]]>Thu, 17 Aug 2017 11:56:59 -0400201708171156592017-08-17T11:56:59-04:002017-08-17T11:56:59-04:00BRIDGEWATER, N.J. >> Military veterans are getting unlimited access to college assistance under legislation President Donald Trump has signed into law.

The Forever GI Act removed a 15-year limit on using the benefits, effective immediately. The measure increases financial assistance for National Guard and Reserve members, building on a 2008 law that guaranteed veterans a full-ride scholarship to any in-state, public university, or a similar cash amount to attend private colleges.